February 16, 2017

They came to Number Three: The Prizefighters

 In the spring of 1979, in the 50th issue of our magazine Number Three, we wrote about one of the most intriguing entries in our weight books for July 23, 1808, recording “a weigh-in” of the famous prizefighters Tom Cribb and Jem Belcher, between the champions’ two classic fights. Witnessed by George Berry the first, it shows Belcher at 12 stone 1 to Cribb’s 14 stone 7. Here we republish the original article